blight
The feeling, when walking through a part of town, that this neighborhood has seen
better days. The decline of a part of the city from thriving neighborhood to encroaching ghettodom. Usually,
blight begins with the construction of a mall/huge shopping complex, which drains local businesses of needed revenue, causing them to fail, leading eventually to
joblessness and poverty. The first signs of blight are poorly kept properties, damaged building facades and an increasing number of "for sale" signs.
Blight can worsten or recover, but if aided by a poor economy, it can be the precursor to the descent of the neighborhood into ghetto status. Jobs stay scarce, get scarcer, the
upper middle classes leave because the area is no longer "desirable," the lower middle classes leave to find jobs in other towns. As property values plunge, the neighborhood becomes populated by the very poor, who can't afford to live any where else. Since ethnic and class lines, just as concrete as one another, often run paralell, the neigborhood often changes color. As buildings fall into
disrepair, sale signs give way to
boarded up windows. In it's final state, the neighborhood is a slum, a ghetto, plagued with crime, disease and, above all, crushing, inescapeable poverty. This of course is just the worst case scenario.
Blight
by gamering gamers on May 10, 2022 00:33:21
In the Stop-Motion series “
Moral Orel”
Orel’s father
Clay Puppington has a drunk rant about nature. He mentions the word blight being sudden withering death. And how Orel needs to look at the Blight side of things.
Example:
Clay:
(After a large swig of alcohol) I gotta tell you,
Orel; your cup is always half empty. You need to be more like your old man and look at the
blight side of things.
Orel:
Blight?
Clay:
I didn't say bright, I said blight. "My life is sunny and blight". Bright means the opposite, it means sudden
withering death, and...(Suddenly despondent)...Oh, who am I kidding? My life is full of bright.
Orel:
You mean blight?
Clay:
Oh God...
Orel:
What's the matter?
Clay:
...I hate myself...
Blight
by gamering gamers on May 10, 2022 00:29:25
In the Stop-Motion series “
Moral Orel”
Orel’s father
Clay Puppington has a drunk rant about nature. He mentions the word blight being sudden withering death. And how Orel needs to look at the Blight side of things.
Example:
Clay:
(After a large swig of alcohol) I gotta tell you,
Orel; your cup is always half empty. You need to be more like your old man and look at the
blight side of things.
Orel:
Blight?
Clay:
I didn't say bright, I said blight. "My life is sunny and blight". Bright means the opposite, it means sudden
withering death, and...(Suddenly despondent)...Oh, who am I kidding? My life is full of bright.
Orel:
You mean blight?
Clay:
Oh God...
Orel:
What's the matter?
Clay:
...I hate myself...
blightful
by Blightful on Jul 26, 2012 22:57:18
(adj.) A slang word describing the state of being a
blight. Often used to denote something really shitty or
unfortunate. Similar to
dreadful.